Moore is quoting here in that phrase "business documents and school-books," as she tells us, from Tolstoy, a prose writer.

穆尔在那个短语里引用了这句,“商业文书和教科书“，正如她告诉我们的，引用来自托尔斯泰，俄国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And it's... He's my favorite author in America.

而且这部小说……他是我最喜欢的美国小说家。

你最喜欢的作家是 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Eudora Welty was once asked why Southerners can be such great writers, or such good storytellers and she was a wonderful storyteller.

但有一次她被问到,为什么南方总是出伟大的作家,或者是杰出的小说家,她自己就是个很出色的小说家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

My favorite American author right now writes novels.

我最喜欢的美国作家是一位小说家。

你最喜欢的作家是 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选